Word: wadhams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life of an extraordinary woman-a life that began in a fashionable, upper-class Episcopal home in Philadelphia, ended in an English Roman Catholic convent, and may be crowned by beatification by the Roman Catholic Church. In The Case of Cornelia Connelly (Pantheon; $3.75), British Roman Catholic Author Juliana Wadham brings back to life a reverberating scandal that burst upon the U.S. and Britain in 1849, when the Catholic Church was struggling to re-establish itself in England...
...perfect child," he confides to one biographer, "never spoke, never cried!" But in this pose-for Beecham can assume a pose quite naturally-he would no doubt choose to forget that his student days at Oxford came to a sudden end after 18 months and that the warden of Wadham College is then reported to have said, "Mr. Beecham! Your untimely departure has perhaps spared us the necessity of asking...
...Fellow and tutor of history at Oxford's Wadham College, he had worked with Winston Churchill on Churchill's monumental life of Marlborough. Right after Munich, he joined the army. He was the first officer to parachute into Yugoslavia,* worked so closely with Tito that the two were once wounded by the same bomb explosion. After the war, a lieutenant colonel with a D.S.O., he returned to Wadham, also began helping Churchill with his famed war memoirs. Last week 36-year-old Bill Deakin took over as Warden of St. Antony...